Like, "I heard Seth Rogen say ‘cocksucker' when I was 9 years old and ever since then I've been wanting to steal things." I'm always afraid I'm going to fuck them up and say the one thing that sends them to therapy. Rogen: I think the main thing from my life that came out in Knocked Up was just my immense awkwardness around children, specifically Judd's children, who also play the children in the movie. I was like, "God, Leslie really hates me." She would say, "I don't hate you, I hate Judd." Leslie Mann and I would perform a fight scene, and it would get very contentious.
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Rudd: There are things in the movie that are straight out of Judd's life. So I think everyone relates to the woman who has children but still wants to go dancing at nightclubs, or the guy who says he has an appointment but is actually seeing Spiderman 3. And I said, "People have been doing this for thousands of years! Cavemen didn't have What to Expect When You're Expecting!" That's in the movie.Īpatow: On some level, most people are very immature. Rudd: I recently had a kid, and one thing my wife took - understandably - as a very hostile gesture was the fact that I never read any of those baby books. At the beginning you think she's kind of busting his balls, but as the movie goes on you realize he's an enormous pain in the ass. We wanted this fight to be in kinda a silly setting, but we wanted the fight to be very real and really kinda sad.Īpatow: I think his wife is right for being so pissed off, because it is a betrayal of the marriage and the amount of time she puts into the family. Rudd: Judd really liked the idea that she thinks her husband is cheating, but what he's really doing is just sneaking away to play fantasy baseball and get away from her, because he needs some time for himself. Segel: There was something really funny too, in that Martin couldn't quite move his mouth naturally as the beard got longer and longer. Rudd: There's one scene, where we're sitting in the hospital they all started ripping on him in the hospital, and I say, "Guys, guys leave him alone, after all he did die for your sins." You just start thinking about guys with beards: I'll make a Cat Stevens joke, I'll make a Serpico joke, I'll make a Charles Manson joke, I'll make a Taliban joke. There's a DVD extra that has like 300 beard jokes on it.Īpatow: Who knew the beard was such fertile ground for comedy? We would write a bunch of them, but then Jonah Goldberg could make beard jokes for five straight hours, so none of that was difficult. Rogen: Suddenly a stupid joke had thousands and thousands of dollars of man-hours put into it. Because every scene ended with one of us making fun of Martin's beard. Segel: It was also a real exercise in focus to try to think of 30 beard jokes a day. We thought we could chart the nine months based on Martin's beard length.Īpatow: It was scary because I thought, "If I make Martin Starr grow a beard the entire movie and the joke bombs, I really destroyed the movie." So I'm so happy our sea of beard jokes worked, because if it hadn't, it would have just sunk us. Segel: The thing I love about the beard is that at one point, we had the beard idea, and then it was done. Rogen: We just thought it would be funny if Martin Starr was growing a beard the whole movie. We're sort of the backdrop to remind the audience that a month ago this guy was a pot-smoking, porn-watching clod. We're like the Greek chorus, you know? All of our advice is so different that we literally are no help whatsoever. Segel: The reality of the situation is that if you're a dude who gets a girl pregnant, the first thing you're doing is going to your friends and saying, "What the fuck am I supposed to do?" And I think that's sort of the function we serve. I knew that even if I sucked, the movie would be good just because Katherine Heigl and Leslie Mann and all my roommates are so funny. Rogen: I was very happy with the rest of the cast. I just thought, "He has his joke styles with everybody, so if I hire his real friends and they rehearse and improvise, it will sound exactly like what it does when Seth is hanging out with his buddies," except maybe funnier, because I only pick the funny stuff.
Once you're improvising for hours on end, you're just going to do what's funny and natural."Īpatow: I think Seth has lived with almost every person that plays his friends in the movie. You will not all seem the same no matter what. Rogen: My friends would be like, "Yeah, but am I the funny guy or the angry guy?" and I'm like, "You're you.
Knocked Up trailer courtesy of Universal Pictures
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